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He’s had three back surgeries, built a leadership app with an AI coach in it, and still believes the kitchen is worth staying in. Chef Adam Lamb spent 40 years cooking everywhere from Ditka’s to a 650-person retirement community before turning that experience into coaching, a book, and a tool built to help kitchens hold onto their people.
In this conversation we discuss:
🔥 Why kitchens promote their best cooks into leadership and never teach them how to lead
🔥 The identity collapse that happens when “I’m a chef” is the only answer you have to “who are you”
🔥 What running dining for 650 retirees taught him that restaurants never did
🔥 Why he built an AI dev coach into The StaffApp, and what it actually does
🔥 The real cost of staff turnover, and why most retention programs don’t move the number
🔥 Stay or go: when the right move is fixing the kitchen, not leaving it
🔗 More from Chef Adam Lamb:
🎧 Chef Life Radio: https://open.spotify.com/show/7w1sii8X2eukTsm8jiVEx5
🎧 Hear Furqan’s episode on Chef Life Radio: https://open.spotify.com/episode/7zsbmdYQPsmundxSlZWRlc
🌐 Chef Life Radio website: https://listen.chefliferadio.com/
🔗 All his links (StaffApp, book, community): https://www.claylight.ai/cheflifemedia
🎧 Fugitive Chefs explores how culinary expertise creates value across the modern food system.
🌐 Website: https://www.fugitivechefs.com
🎧 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/57kmFAUgp6DhgnguexFuDs
🎥 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@fugitivechefs
🍎 Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/fugitive-chefs/id1676930088
📩 Beyond the Pass: https://beyondthepass.substack.com
📸 Instagram: https://instagram.com/fugitivechefspodcast
